Downing
38
I stand corrected!
It wasn't the first time I've been mistaken and certainly won't be the last, LOL.
As far as my GO to be, I've been waiting for months for the new GMT to reach our shores and had put down a deposit some time ago. Unfortunately, there's been no definitive word on when it would become available in the United States--I'm not even sure it's available anywhere in the world--so I decided to go ahead and spend the funds on the Navigator ND. Hopefully I'll have it early next week. I'll still get the GMT when it arrives, but since I was also going to buy the Navigator someday it might as well be now.
The Navigator is by far my favorite pilots watch, so I'm pretty jazzed to add it to my modest but growing collection.
Caliber 39
Anyone know the normal rate for a GO with caliber 39? Mine is in a sport evolution and my rates were +3 seconds after 24 hours, +8 after 48hours and +13 after 72 hours. Is this normal for caliber 39? Tom
Glashütte Original movements aren't COSC certified . . .
. . . so the usual parameters associated with the COSC don't necessarily apply. I can tell you my experience with six different cal 39 equipped watches, three of which have been sent in for service or regulation: the spread between the most and least accu...
Mine
I own two G.O. watches, as Art knows (Senator Karree Manual Cal 22 and Senator Navigator Panorama Date Cal 100). Both watches run within a tolerance of + or minus 2 seconds per day. To be precise, both run fast by about 1-2 seconds per day. I understand t...
I haven't performed any timing tests on my cal 22 yet, but . . .
. . . the initial peremptory checks are within a few seconds per day, and the power reserve is 40.5 hours, exactly within the specified 40 hours +/- 5%. Btw, the cal 39 that was "essentially perfect" was my very first G O, a Karree chronograph w/o date: o...
. . . and a few comments regarding rate accuracy directly from G O . . .
. . . which performs tests to DIN standards rather than COSC. Glashütte Original manual- winding calibers 22, 42, 49, and most of the tourbillons are tested in five positions at three temperatures, and must be within a range of -4 seconds to +6 seconds pe...
Art, I don't mean to pepper you with questions but...
Did GO happen to mention *why* the automatic movements are tested at only one temperature rather than three like the manuals? And what those temperatures are? Just wondering. If you don't know the answer, don't make a special effort to find out but next t...
By the way, Art...
Wempe Jewelers (on 5th Ave. in NYC) is currently marketing, rather heavily, a gold tonneau-shaped watch as a chonometer...that is being sold under its own name ("Wempe"). The watch is advertised as meeting "...the standards of the German Institute for Sta...
Nomos or Wempe?
David, I think the watch you're referring to may actually be made by Wempe the watch manufacturer that operates out of the Glashütte Observatory. I believe the manufacturer Wempe is a different entity from the jeweler Wempe. I may be completely mistaken a...
No, I'm correct, Downing
Wempe the Jeweler (I work near it) and Nomos the Glashutte-based watch maker. It really is a "DIN vs COSC" thing, marketing-wise, as I said in my prior post.